
Sighting down the Cascades from 10,000 feet in 2001

Pear Orchards in Hood River, Oregon

USA // Oregon // U.S. National Scenic Area // Columbia River Gorge

As the last light departs the day, tracks in Pine Grove point to Mt Adams

A crescent moon sets over the Columbia

Columbia River View

Sunrise at Rowena Crest, Oregon

Sunset Erupts on Mt. Hood

Milky Way over Tom McCall Point

Hood River Valley Wildflower Vista

Mt. Hood, the western wall of the Hood River Valley

Tracks headed toward Mt Hood From Pine Grove pass by flowering pear groves

August wildfire, Mosier, Oregon, 2009

A full moon silhouettes the sentry firs against the blue night sky

Into the dandy lion

Spring blossoms in the Hood River Valley

Luscious green: rain's gift

Midnight star trails over Mt. Adams

Hood River Sunrise

Spectacular rainbow backdrop for two windsurfers

Sunset, a bird's view?

Columbia River from Coyote Creek Trail

Rowena Crest, another 15 seconds

Wildfire! Columbia River Gorge

Cherry orchard in March bloom

Rowena Dell in October

Rowena Bloom

Red sky at moonrise

Zigzags: fence, hills and barn

Wildfire frighteningly close to field and home... and a plea for wildlife

Hood River Valley orchards in bloom

Prepare the Red Barn

Cold, dark, wet, windy... summer comes to The Gorge

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years…

And all the roads we have to walk are winding

Pre-dawn lights balsamroot, lupine and Mt. Hood's tip under a full moon

wild flower

Ruthan Point